Example sentences of "[prep] more than usual [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Granville eventually inherited the estate and his connection with Stoke Poges may be of more than usual significance .
2 There are two reasons why this 1956 mono recording of Orff 's well-worn choral work is of more than usual interest .
3 I see now the inadequacy of this explanation ; but , apart from the fact that at that age one 's loyalties are defended with more than usual zeal , my conviction , in the Oxford of that time , was that Collingwood was the only alternative to linguistic philosophy .
4 Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety .
5 Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety .
6 Afterwards , I eyed the other pedestrians in Soho Square with more than usual paranoia , ready for any one of them to turn into a crack-crazed mugger .
7 Yesterday , Achievements marched up and down the grey columns of the party paper Neues Deutschland with more than usual determination .
8 Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn .
9 Once , when the shock of alarm thrilled through her with more than usual intensity , she began to sing , softly , to keep her spirits up , and several phrases had passed her lips before she realized that the song came from her childhood — that she had not sung those words for almost twenty years , had forgotten them even until this moment when , with startling clarity , her memory travelled back in time .
10 It was made all the more infuriating by the fact that she had dressed with more than usual care , splashing out far more than she could afford on a red silk jersey creation from an expensive boutique .
11 Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning .
12 In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock .
13 We were watching the tufted ducks which made up for their late appearance this season by arriving in more than usual strength .
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